Gday Everyone,
For a few years now I have been very interested in the Nuriootpa- Angaston Railway in South Australia. As the years have past, and the history of the railway line is being lost, I wanted to re-create the railway line in HO scale.
At the present time, the layout is in its planning stage. I have a 3m x 4m room to work with which means I am relatively pressed for space. My ideas so far include having Nuriootpa in the centre of the room with the junction to Penrice and Angaston going in seperate directions around the walls. These will have a slight grade eventually elevating Angaston above Nuriootpa. The line will include the Limestone quarry on one branchline and the Cement works on the other leading to Angaston.
I have recently started creating rollingstock for the layout and am starting on some infrastructure. The stone hoppers are Strath Hobbies kits, which look very respectable with some added details, as do the Strath Hobbies Cement wagons. The first piece of infrasture built is a SAR 5 Ton rotating Jib crane from Strath Hobbies.
Locomotives will include two 900 Class locomotives, a trainorama 930, multiple 830's, and coming next year, a SAR Rx Class Steamer. Other visiting locomotives will also appear on the layout at some point in time.
Will post more info soon.
Nick
